Cem Ilkel and Johan Nikles will square off in the 1st round of the Lugano Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:30 pm on CAMPO 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cem Ilkel who should win in 2 sets.
Cem Ilkel -> 1.285
Johan Nikles -> 3.42
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Prediction and head to head Cem Ilkel vs. Johan Nikles
There is no head to head record between Cem Ilkel and Johan Nikles since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Cem Ilkel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-26 | 7-12 | 4-7 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-29 | 6-10 | 0-4 | 27-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-16 | 2-4 | 0-3 | 16-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-29 | 17-9 | 13-11 | 8-7 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 13-15 | 2-3 | 1-7 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 318, the Turk got to the 1st round after beating Kyle Edmund 3-6 7-65 6-2 and Illya Marchenko 7-66 7-62.
In the qualifications, Cem had a good straight sets win against Marchenko (7-66 7-62). During the match, Ilkel scored 87 points vs Marchenko’s 79. Ilkel was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ilkel recorded 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Cem Ilkel was pretty effective on serve to win 76% (35/46) of his 1st serve and 60% (18/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Cem broke Marchenko once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ilkel started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has surrendered 1 set in this event to conquer 52% of the points he played.
Ilkel has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (326-252). 4-4 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Ilkel has an overall 83-61 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The Turk has an overall 6-6 win-loss record in 2024, 4-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lugano Challenger
Johan Nikles
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 44-25 | 11-5 | 33-19 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-23 | 2-2 | 19-19 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-28 | 1-3 | 42-21 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-11 | 0-0 | 14-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 868, the Swiss will start his run in the Lugano Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Hammamet where he lost 4-6 6-1 6-3 to Maria Noce in the 1st round on the 21st of February.
The Swiss has a composed 17-5 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Johan’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Hammamet.
In terms of his career, Nikles has an overall 259-185 record. He has a negative 3-8 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Lugano Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Lugano Challenger
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zizou BergsBergs – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Joris De LooreDe Loore (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Johan NiklesNikles (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel MasurMasur – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Billy HarrisHarris – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Remy BertolaBertola – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Henri SquireSquire – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (0-1) – H2H and prediction